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PART 3 OF 5 THE NOT-SO-QUIET ADVENTURE

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ABOVE - The sun over Resurrection Bay at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 15, 2018. This is the kind of weather Rockwell Kent begins to occasionally see by mid-January and into February. As we gain over four minutes of light each day, we begin to literally see the light at the end of the tunnel. The extra light gain is quite noticeable for us, so must it be for Kent. By February he knows he must leave soon but is hoping to get to Bear Glacier and further south out to Aialik Bay and Northwestern Fiord sometime in April and May. That doesn’t work out and he leaves Alaska by the end of March 1919 – anxious to get back to Kathleen and the children but frustrated that he didn’t accomplish all he had wanted. Capra photo. NOTE– As I’m expanding this lecture, it’s getting longer. There will be one more part after this one. This article is Part 3 of 4 of an expanded version of the lecture I delivered at the Anchorage (Alaska) Museum of History and Art on Nov. 9, 2018 as part